u/Aidamis

tl;dr Unemployed loser with delusions of grandeur doesn't know where to start and whether it's worth it, please send help.

Hi. I'm just an average Joe with a case of Puer Eternus who lives with his parents, has no job and no dreams, and feels lost and hopeless. I'm not suicidal or anything, I have a couple of friends, I don't subscribe to any extreme ideology.

At the same time, I have an extreme case of double standards where my expectations for me would be 1000 times higher than for anyone else. And I acknowledge myself as simulateously humble and with high arrogance.

Full disclosure, I haven't been to a doctor's in ages, I've never been at a gym more than once, I'm scared shitless of listening to my mind/heart/body because I've been numbing it all for years and I don't want to pick up the tab. My last therapy session was three years ago and I've never attended coaching.

If I had to frame my situation briefly without being exhaustive, I hate how certain things in the world work, I hate the job market (esp in my own field), and I'm out of shape, with a bad diet, with bad sleeping habits, with low interest in hobbies that used to bring me joy and with low interest in deliberately meeting new people / looking for other hobbies. I've been told before that volunteering might help with my mental state but I'm such a pessimist I feel like my contribution won't make a single difference.

I know my ego is trying to shield me from failure and I know I'm an addicted to whatever's numbing me (games, youtube, binge watching anime...) but I believe that simultaneously it is true that the world is a shitty place and unbelievably corrupt, and most "normies" are some combination of clueless, coward, and barely making ends meet so no energy remains for political activism or whatnot (this is the last time I'll mention politics, don't worry).

I'm keenly aware that if I try to improve my situation (I dunno, finding a job?) I'll be bombarded with new issues such as those tied to the job and stuff like guilt over not having found it earlier.

Yet I feel like I'll just always be overwhelmed and I'll never be able to solve stuff in a meaningful and more importantly contribute to society in a meaningful fashion (working as a clerk for some small business strikes me as "not enough", sorry to sound narcisstic I'm too qualified for this level, plus I'll be mostly benefiting shareholders and not my city or humanity).

Dr K keeps talking about the importance of action, getting small wins, taking baby steps, and fighting overwhelmness by willing taking on more active challenges. Dr K also talks of taking a goal, dividing it by two, dividing it by two again, and setting up a plan with milestone for this.

But I dunno where to start and whether starting would make a difference. And I feel like if the only positive outcome is a bit more financial stability and maybe my feefeefeelings will be a bit more at ease, I might as well not bother cause it would all be for selfish reasons.

Can anyone relate? Did taking action really improve your life? How much?

Thank you veyr much!

There was a Dragon Warlock homebrew on reddit slash UnearthedArcana, I recently remembered it but then I realized my DM (respectfully) only allowed published material.

How could I go for a Dragon Warlock using available stuff, be it single class or multiclass? I know I can go DracoSorc and call it a Warlock, but I wonder what types of alternatives there may be.

The setting is likely Eberron. I might not even need the character but if my old one dies or retires for a good reason I feel like a DragonLock could be interesting.

Thank you!!

I nominate 11 Eyes OP, "Arrival of tears" by Ayane, and the anime 11 Eyes. Just the first lines:

"In the warped awakening, if the Crimson Night opens up your eyes

Then you will have an eternal sleep in the black darkness, drowning in the shadow of the moon."

Disclaimer: I'm not saying chuuni = cringe, on the contrary, chuuni can be super epic. You could say Fate/Stay Night is chuuni to an extent. It also has lots of common elements with shounen tropes such as magic powers, swords with names and screaming how you technique is called as you use it.

So, which chuuni songs from anime and chuuni anime you happened to enjoy?

Hi. I've stumbled upon a novel with a funny premise on novelupdates but I can't find it anymore.

I remember it had something to do with a Barbarian (99% sure female MC) who wanted to become a magic user (90% sure it's Cleric/Priest you get the vibe).

The main genres are probably comedy/game elements/litrpg with the protag being too dumb to understand that their respec is a tall order.

I don't believe the author intended the novel as satirical or something, the MC being passionate about becoming a mage was framed as being cute.

Does it ring any bells?

Thank you!

(Tagged 2024 but I'll briefly mention 2014)

Hi. I've been recently looking into ranged Paladins and have stumbled, among others, accross Treantmonk's video about his Ranger-y Ancients Paladin he played in a oneshot. The YTber mentioned it was hard to multiclass in and out of a Dexadin owing to the 13 Str requirement. I wanted to share a few thoughts about why I think it's not a big deal.

Back in 2014 ver, Half-Elf could do it pretty easily. You'd keep 14 Con alongside your 13 Str on top of having one of the best species. In Point-Buy, all you had to do was 13 15+1 12+2 8 8 15+1 and you'd be golden. Mountain Dwarf could follow, to an extent, with 13 15+2 12+2 8 8 15, trust me there are worse ASIs at level 4 than +1 Dex +1 Cha.

2024 puts everyone under the same rules: +1 +1 +1 or +2 +1 or +1 +2, with Tasha Custom Race now removed (in all but flavor, flavor is still free). This puts us back to square one where usually the cost of 13 Str is 12 Con. If you can handle that, minmaxing the rest of your stats is smooth sailing. And Paladin handles that rather well thanks to d10 hit dice, high AC, access to Lay on Hands and Aura of Protection.

Just one example to illustrate my point:

Jane Doe wants to play PalaRogue in a level 11 oneshot, split 6/5: she picks Dwarf (+1 hp per level) and Wayfarer. She starts with 13 15+2 12 8 8 15+1 and Lucky. She gets Mage Slayer to fit her RP (+1 Dex) and +2 Dex for her second feat. Even absent Aid (spell slots are precious) she has 12+5*(6+2)+5*(5+2)=87 hp + up to 30 she can heal as a bonus action.

Without Dwarf, she would've had 76 hp but still enough to perform decently.

Keep in mind that Tough is an Origin feat and thus going Human would let us pick any Background while getting the buffer Tough provides.

Conclusion: Dexadin is still doable without becoming a glass canon or stretching yourself too thin. It won't be as easy-to-build and as minmaxed as StrengthLadin or ChaLadin multiclases, but it will function well, as long as you get the most out if its strengths (higher Initiative, ranged weapons, stealth campaign...).

I can see three cases where things will get complicated: 1) the other class requires a 13 in Wisdom or Intelligence, 2) subpar rolled stats and 3) Standard Array (which I'd argue is partially solvable if you don't mind playing Vengeance). And I respect Treantmonk and the community's frequent opinion that a multiclassed Dexadin is more MAD than a Paladin. But I'll never let the 13 Str prerequisite deter me and I hope my brief piece persuaded you as well.

Thank you for reading and for your feredback!

A) Example of manga with yuri as a primary genre: Blooming into You, Adachi and Shimamura, most of the yuri manga that appears on this sub.

The main genre is romance, specifically GL. Anything that has to do with fantasy, scifi, mystery... is of secondary importance. It may serve as a pretext for bringing two or more characters together, or as a backdrop. The romance is the highlight and the main dish.

B) Example of manga with yuri as a secondary genre: MagiRevo, HameFura, Roll Over And Die, Gundam G-Witch (there actually is a manga), Destiny Chain Online, lots of slice of life/comedy manga - Dragon Maid, Bocchi The Rock, Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, Centaur no Nayami, Machikado Mazoku, Girls Und Panzer Ribbon Warriori, K-On (imho).

The main genre is adventure and/or fantasy and/or slice of life (those often mix from what I've noticed), or scifi with any of the above, can have a dash of band/music action, can have detective work in the front row, so on.

My personal preference: yuri as a secondary genre. In my experience this tends to more often lead to both characters being developed outside of the romance and presented as their own individual that each has goals, hopes and dreams outside of just the romance/the couple.

Granted, good yuri with yuri as the primary genre usually have that! The author does develop the main characters, showcases their different interests, often leverages the secondary genre to serve that purpose and showcase how Girl A's whole character isn't just "girlfriend of Girl B".

It's just that after reading lots of fluffy slice of life school yuri, things get a bit stale for me and I become drawn to the likes of "fantasy or scifi adventure that has a homosexual female main cast".

What's your preference? Yuri as main/primary genre or yuri as a secondary genre ?

I feel like a game like VTMB, on crack, with a Cyberpunk/Deus Ex level of city size and ways to approach problems, but where you start as the bottom of the food chain, could be incredible.

Just picture the options:

You could be a human joining the Inquisition, learning all kinds of skills and weapons to investigate, detect, counter vampires. The game could even borrow some stuff from the likes of Vanitas (an anime) and let you use "doping" to temporarily match a werewolf or a vampire in terms of speed/strength, or at least come to a "halfway between".

You could join a werewolf clan, go full Jacob, maybe do some side-quests and have a forbidden romance with a vampire.

You could be bitten but go on a whole looong sidequest to find a cure, with various endings such as dying but not before safely sharing all the data with the relevant authorities which means a cure to vampirism is found.

You could make a pact with Cthulhu, become a spooky cultists and fight the inquisition, maybe work for a vampire a bit and have them become your sugar daddy.

I feel like this could be done the 1st person Deus Ex/Cyberpunk way or the top-down Dragon Age/Cyberpunk way. Honestly, I don't mind Pathfinder Kingmaker levels of graphics as long as there is depth and replayability.

So many possibilities!

Just pick a publisher who isn't afraid of going super dark with the themes, there's no point if it's a toothless 12+ acepticized game.

I was thinking of getting Jedi Guardian for Force Jump but think of it as the jetpack activating. And going for more blaster perks for more shooting power.

Feel free to share your ideas!

Edit: found, credit goes to u/bib_punk It's the Halo tv show. Thank you to everyone who chimed in!!

Hi. It was either a tv show or a very long movie, 90% sure it was live action (if it was full 3D, it was good full 3D).

Basically there was this semi-desertic planet with a big city where some aristocrat family was in charge. Some bad guys arrived, killed the governor and a usurper took his place, however usurper failed to kill the governor's daughter while his widow went missing.

Months/years later, the daughter came back, infiltrated the city, managed to find her mother and a handful of loyal people. Her mother told her nothing could be done since there were few clansmen left and the usurper had someone powerful behind him (some sort of syndicate or evil space empire).

The girl persevered and at some point nearly got caught by the usurper who was notified she was around.

Somewhere along the way MC was joined by some kind of experienced space mercenary/potentially a cyborg. It all ended in a two vs many shootout in some industrial area where the big guy nearly got killed.

I know for a fact this wasn't Book of Bobba Fett and I'm 90% sure it wasn't the Mandalorian (or I would've started it from season 3 which would've been weird). I know it wasn't Firefly or Serenity, I know it wasn't The Bad Batch and I'm 90% sure it wasn't Star Wars Rebels (just skimmed through the episodes' summaries).

Thank you for your help!

I know light novels love noblemen/aristocrats setups (esp the isekai variety), but what about aristocrat characters who are low on finances and/or bottom of the noble totem pole?

Think knight's daughter MC who lives in a small house and whose household depends on the knight's salary rather than land, which the family has none of or had to sell.

She might be in some high-tier school, but only thanks to dad's superior repaying a favor and that's about it. That could in turn justifiy a character not having most nobles' snobby attitude since she has to intermingle with the common folk all the time.

Would you know of any such works where low-tier nobility plays a part, be it regarding the protag or other key characters, or even themes?

Thank you!!

Hi. I've been prepping for a oneshot and in a Druids video DnD conoisseur Treatmonk mentioned how in his interpretation 2024 Wild Shape no longer allowed species features. I happen to have a different interpretation.

Here's the official PHB text:

[  Game Statistics. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the Beast's stat block, but you retain your creature type; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; class features; languages; and feats. You also retain your skill and saving throw proficiencies and use your Proficiency Bonus for them, in addition to gaining the proficiencies of the creature. If a skill or saving thow modifier in the Beast'stat block is higher than yours, use the one in the stat block.

  No Spellcasting. You can’t cast spells, but shape-shifting doesn’t break your Concentration or otherwise interfere with a spell you’ve already cast. (...).]

2014 ver, for comparison:

[While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

• You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as Call Lightning, that you've already cast.

• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can't use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense. (...)]

Treantmonk notices species features are not listed next "class features, languages and feats". Imho, them not being listed does not mean they're prohibited. Notice how for spellcasting, the text is explicit in both 2014 and 2024 ver. I would expect species features to BOTH not be on the list of the usable stuff AND have a whole bulletpoint that would've been "You cannot use your species features."

This is a biased interpretation, I won't hide it. While at the end of the day I'd simply allow species features in Wildshape as a houserule when I DM, I remain open to discussion on the topic.

Thank you for your opinions!

EDIT: Solved! I was against a specific Hero and Heroes' Powers go first. Thank you for enlightening me!

Hi. Just played Murlocks. Got the effect where Timewarped minions were in the tavern on turns 7 and 10.

Got not one but two Timewarped Mrrrgrls and one Choral Mrrrgrl. As you might expect, if you put Choral between the two Timewarped, Choral gets big stats because it gets your hand's stats, plus your hand's stats twice from both Timewarped Mrrrgrls.

However, this is the part that may be potentially a bug -- normally, Mrrrgrl's effects occur at the start of the turn, before anyone can attack.

However, after I gave Choral taunt, in two battles out of three (third was last) my opponent could attack Choral before Choral gained the bonuses.

I can see two possibilities:

• For some reason Taunt delays the application of all three Mrrrgrl's effects
• My opponent was the Dwarf whose could grab a minion from the tavern and launch it at a random enemy minion -- for whatever reason that effect must have applied before the Mrrrgrl's effects did. I'd like to say that I did buff the minion as is (it wasn't a 20/20 Choral Mrrglr), it's just that my opponent had minions in the tavern with huge stat values (Demons + Elementals build)

Hi. I'm just your average depressed jaded dude. For over a year, I've been putting a piece of paper or a thin business card on the bottom right corner of my screen. I don't a clock in my room, I don't own a wristwatch, I don't chck my phone that often.

Needless to say, I'm cr4p at time management and always angry at myself for not having the time to do stuff I had planned for the day.

Can anyone relate? What did you do to eventually allow yourself to have the clock more accessible? Personally, it just stressed me out, I'd rather get lost.

Thank you!

By that I mean a love interest who initially gets closer to the protag to serve her own personal agenda, a magic-highschool-infiltrator-from-the-enemy-country, so on. Someone who does not tell all the truth even if they mean well.

With the love interest eventually falling in love with MC and probably some drama related to the reveal of the love interest's initial secret goals.

Seems like a legit alternative to fantasy isekai to me. Btw I suspect that if syosetu struck a deal with Disney (which would never happen) the platform may become flooded with Jedi isekai.

But as is given that Gundam/Yamato 2199/Space Dandy are popular if someone writes an isekai in that vein it could be interesting imho.

I just don't know that much about what's already available and has been translated.

Thank you for your input!

I've seen the trope a million times and it's kind of irritating me. I know I should just not hate-read stuff (and fortunately I usually stop as soon as I smell bs) but the question has been on my mind for some time.

Let's take a random 1st world country, let's say the State of Texas. Now imagine a M John Smith Sr takes out a loan from a small private bank. And that the bank puts into the loan contract a clause (which I assume would be illegal) that if Smith Sr can't repay the debt, the bank goes after the next of kin. (Not that the next of kin agreed to be guarantors and co-sign!) This does include M John Smith Jr who hasn't talked to his dad in ages and is living on the other side of the State and yet somehow he's supposed to be liable. Now let's say Smith Sr vanishes and is nowhere to be found.

In fanfictionland, this would lead to nasty business because the author is looking for a narrative shortcut. But what about IRL?

Can Mr Smith Jr just ignore the bank repeatedly asking for the debt to be repaid? Can the bank try to bury Mr Smith Jr legally even though they don't have solid ground to stand on? What would be Mr Smith Jr lawyer's main line of defense?

I do believe the most recent law prevents the debts of parents from passing on to spouses or children if neither were guarantors/co-signees of a loan contract.

I'm not necessarily looking for precise details, just to confirm my own suspicions that if the dumb fanfic trope occured IRL the whole farce wouldn't last a year since the debt's owner doesn't have a case and will be sued for harassment if they insist they do.

Thank you!

Let's say we add the same two Weapon Masteries feature Barbarians get. All else stays as is except maybe Profane Soul subclass if you believe the 2024 changes to Warlock should bring some change to Profane Soul's features.

I think they still make for okay dual wielders and ranged martials.

The potential of Magic Initiate Druid at level 1 makes an Int or Wis build more likely, and that build can still use PAM with a quarterstaff.

Face Bloodhunters are a bit easier to build as well (MI: D Charisma) albeit if we don't want to go single class, 13 Str or Dex + 13 Int (or Wis) multiclass requirements remain.

Personally I'd maybe add Alchemist Tools' proficiency for Mutant and some optional Masteries for Predatory Strikes (think Sap, simply add PS to the list of eligible weapons). But that's about it.

Mutant can still herpaderp with their Mutagens, maybe go Hermit for the Herbalism kit to follow a theme.

Thanks for your feedback!